My daughter is almost 5 and has so many questions about God and Jesus. Which is awesome as a Christian mom that is all you could want. But, at the same time, I am learning about my own faith too.
Penelopi prays anytime she thinks of something she wants to ask Jesus, then she sits there like she is waiting for a response like she is having a phone call.
She also is 100% convinced she needs to invite Jesus to her birthday party. So she asked me if she could invite him, I said sure but just know you won’t be able to see him like you can your friends at the party. Which then she responded with but he came down when he died why can’t he come down for my party? I mean she kinda has a point, I can see the thought process.
At Easter, I got from mardels easter eggs that each had a different part of the easter story in it. We got to talking about how Jesus died and she immediately goes “Mom! Did you kill Jesus?”
I say all these things just to show how easy it is to see faith through a child’s eyes. We can all see her thought process in these different situations yet we are too embarrassed to have a childlike faith. We are too busy trying to have a faith that the world will accept.
Matthew 18 1-5 says
“1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.”
This statement may have shocked Jesus’ disciples because children had no status in the Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures of the time. In the first century, children were often seen as a nuisance and had little to no rights. In Hellenistic society, (which would have been when Jesus was alive) . Roman law gave the father absolute power over his family, which extended to life and death. Children were considered to hold the lowest status in society and were worthless, valued only for their potential as future adults.
Some say that receiving the kingdom of God as a child means thoroughly humbling yourself, both spiritually and materially, standing in solidarity with those whom society has deemed “less worthy” or unimportant.
God says those of us who have childlike faith have the kingdom, to put ourselves in a position of someone society (at the time) deemed unworthy and unimportant. That is where God wants to meet us!
So ask the silly questions and grow your faith! God will be beside you
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